The Bronx

Man Stole, Crashed NYPD Squad Car

Police are searching for a man who stole a marked police car in the Bronx and crashed it Sunday morning, the New York Police Department said.

The unlocked squad car had been unoccupied and left running in the parking lot of the NYPD's 50th Precinct, which is located in the Kingsbridge neighborhood, police said.

Around 6:20 a.m. a man got into the driver's seat of the car and drove the vehicle about 2 1/2 miles south before crashing it into four parked cars near Fordham Road and Sedgwick Avenue, police said.

Surveillance video showed the man, who was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweater and a black jacket, walking away from the crash in front of 2304 Sedgwick Ave., police said.

The man was last spotted getting into a black Lincoln Town Car and fleeing east on Fordham Road. No one was injured in the incident.

Police are working to determine why the police car was left idling as part of their investigation, a police official said.

--Pervaiz Shallwani

Windsor Locks, Conn.

Terrorism Response Exercise Is Planned

The Connecticut Department of Public Health is hosting a mock exercise to test the state's and federal government's response to a hypothetical terrorist bombing on a Metro-North commuter train.

The three-day Mass Fatality Management exercise will be held at Camp Hartell Windsor Locks from Oct. 25-27. Various federal, state and regional emergency management and law-enforcement officials are scheduled to participate.

The exercise will include a series of lectures and hands-on drills. It will test things like evidence collection and fatality management at the crash site, morgue operations and family assistance services.

Department of Public Health officials plan to brief the media on Tuesday about the mock exercise at the New England Disaster Training Center at Camp Hartell in Windsor Locks.

--Associated Press

Brookhaven

Car Collision Kills Mother, Daughter

Police on Long Island said a mother and her daughter were killed in a motor vehicle crash.

Suffolk County police said the accident happened around 5 p.m. Saturday in Selden when a vehicle making a left turn collided with another car.

Seventy-three-year-old Marie Sanacore, of Coram, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her mother, Nellie Furino, 96, also of Coram, was taken to a hospital, where she died a short time later.

The other driver, 22-year-old Shuofang Yang, of South Setauket, and a passenger were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

An investigation is continuing.

--Associated Press

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 24, 2016 02:49 ET (06:49 GMT)